Synodic month length 29.65 days

Length of current 1223 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 33 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than next lunation 1224 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 49 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 16 December 2098 Tuesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠78.8°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠78.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠115.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon after perigee

4 days after point of perigee on 11 December 2098 at 21:02 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 December 2098 at 21:01 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 367 834 km

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 15:17 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 30 December 2098 at 20:34 in ♈ Aries.

Draconic month

Moon before southern standstill

6 days after previous North standstill on 9 December 2098 at 15:23 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.352°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.323° in the next southern standstill on 22 December 2098 at 16:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.